BUDDHIST MONASTIC CODE I

Buddhist Monastic Code 1grandfathers. An unrelated bhikkhunī who has received only her first ordination, fromthe bhikkhunīs, is grounds for a dukkaṭa. Related bhikkhunīs are not grounds for anoffense, nor are female trainees or female novices.Perception as to whether the bhikkhunī is actually one's relative is not a mitigatingfactor here (see Pc 4).The Commentary states that if Bhikkhu X is sewing robe-cloth for a bhikkhunīrelated to him, and Bhikkhu Y — who is not related to her — helps him sew it,Bhikkhu Y incurs a pācittiya for every stitch he sews in the cloth. The Subcommentaryadds, though, that if Bhikkhu Y does not know that the cloth is for thebhikkhunī, he is exempt from the offense.Non-offenses. There is no offense in sewing a cloth requisite other than a robe foran unrelated bhikkhunī, in sewing anything for a bhikkhunī who is a relation, or insewing anything for a female trainee or female novice, related or not.Summary: Sewing a robe — or having it sewn — for an unrelated bhikkhunī is apācittiya offense.27. Should any bhikkhu, by arrangement, travel together with abhikkhunī even for the interval between one village and the next,except at the proper occasion, it is to be confessed. Here the properoccasion is this: The road is to be traveled by caravan (§) and isconsidered dubious and risky. This is the proper occasion here.Here the full offense has two factors.1) Object a bhikkhunī2) Effort: (a) One makes an arrangement together with her to travel together;(b) one actually travels together with her as arranged (c) from one village toanother (d) except on the allowable occasions.Object. A bhikkhunī who has received the double ordination is grounds for apācittiya here. Any other woman would come under Pc 67.Making an arrangement. According to the Vibhaṅga, both the bhikkhu and thebhikkhunī must give their verbal assent to the arrangement for this part of the factorto be fulfilled. If the bhikkhu proposes the arrangement but the bhikkhunī does notgive her verbal assent, then even if they later travel together as he proposed, heincurs a dukkaṭa. If she proposes the arrangement but he does not give his verbalassent, then even if they later travel together as she proposed, he incurs no penalty.Perception as to whether the factors for making an arrangement are actually fulfilledis not a mitigating factor here (see Pc 4).294